On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Wan-Teh Chang wrote:

>Eric Irrgang wrote on 10/12/2004, 12:07 PM:
>> Is there a way to examine a database to
>> determine which version of the tools to
>> use with it?
>
>Unfortunately no.  Here is how you determine
>that.
>
>cert7.db: NSS 3.6 or older
>cert8.db: NSS 3.7 or newer

Yes, that was my understanding as well.  But tools built from NSS 3.3.4+
definitely use cert8.db as well.  I presume Sun started building on the
3.3.x tree after 3.3.2 but mozilla.org decided to document the more recent
code trees on such pages as
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/

>
>This is documented in the NSS 3.7 Release
>Notes 
>(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/nss-3.7/nss-3.7-release-notes.html).
>I know it is not obvious how to find this
>information.

Yup, I'd seen it.  I admit it took a little looking.  At least it was
linked from _somewhere_  ;)

Thanks!

Eric Irrgang - UT Austin ITS Unix Systems - (512)475-9342
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